Executive Summary : | Every hour and every day a large number of news media including online and print newspapers and news broadcasts on radio and television are spewing out news about events in different corners of the world. In addition news events are being reported in different social networks and informal media. The aim of this project is to provide a platform to collect news events and provide a platform to disseminate the news by providing visualization and rendering of the events in the language of the user, and to present various analytics of events. A cross-lingual, multi-lingual, multi-source and multi-domain platform will be developed. It will be enabled for online news documents fron India in English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Tamil; and several domains including disaster, conflict events and health. The platform will. A robust framework for the system will be defined so as to be easily extendible to other languages and media. |
Co-PI: | Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Director and Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna, Prof. Pawan Goyal, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, Sobha L , AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai, Asif Ekbal, Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Patna, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Bombay |
